title: Giant metastatic cardiac and abdominal liposarcomas causing hemodynamic deterioration.
abstract: Myxoid liposarcoma usually develops in the retroperitoneum or deep soft tissues of extremities. Synchronous cardiac and abdominal metastases are extremely rare. We describe the case of a 63-year-old man, with a history of a thigh liposarcoma, treated by resection, chemotherapy and postoperative radiotherapy 13 years ago. Patient now presented with an intracardial, a pericardial and an abdominal mass, identified as metastatic myxoid liposarcomas. He eventually underwent successful emergency sternotomy and subsequent laparotomy for tumor resection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Athens Medical Center, Athens, Greece. lazopoulosg@ath.forthnet.gr
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lazopoulos
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Papastavrou
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kantartzis
mesh_terms: D000008:Abdominal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D007813:Laparotomy; D008080:Liposarcoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000556:secondary / Q000628:therapy; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D056346:Sternotomy; D013848:Thigh; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome